Brief Life History of James
When James Whiteman was born on 6 March 1857, in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, his father, Thomas Whiteman, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Jane Weeks, was 34. He married Emily Jane Risbey in 1881, in Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 18 January 1939, in Manly, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 81.
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- James Whiteman, "Australia, Sydney Branch Genealogical Library, Cemetery Inscriptions, 1800-1960"
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1867
End of transportation to Western Australia.
1870
British troops withdraw from Australia.
1892
Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Whitman .
Native American (also White Man): translation into English (and shortening) of a personal name based on a word, such as Lakota Sioux wašiču(ŋ), meaning ‘white man’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weissmann .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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